Doc: I don't hear buzz for UC football

Team should capitalize off Bengal apathy but are we intrigued yet?

8:56 AM,
Aug. 11, 2011

UC coach Butch Jones writes as many as 100 hand-written notes to recruits each week. ?Most coaches have someone do it for them,?? says Jones. He runs his own Facebook page: ?On any given night, I?m in touch with 30 to 50 players.??

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Butch Jones passes the due diligence test. At any given moment, he is the most earnest man on the field. Brian Kelly would tell you the moon is made of green cheese, in such a way you'd ask for a knife and a cracker. Butch Jones will devise a way to get you to the moon, to see for yourself.

The comparisons to Kelly are unfair, of course. BK was the once-in-a-lifetime Pied Piper of Nippert Stadium. Butch Jones is a mudder and a grinder. We know what Kelly did, good and bad. He built a rocket ship in record time at UC. Then, even more quickly, he blasted off.